The Pittsburgh Steelers have among the longest sellout streaks in the NFL. It’s been a long time since they’ve had a ticket go unsold, even if said ticket doesn’t always correspond to a behind in a seat when the game is being played.
In other words, Steelers players are intimately familiar with the intensity of a Heinz Field crowd—or at least those who were here in 2019 do. Because of the Covid-19 pandemic last year, the Steelers only hosted several thousand fans in total across the nine games that they hosted in all of the 2020 season, including the playoffs.